Five-time world champion Mary Kom, who got a direct entry into the 48kg category semi-finals due to the small size of the draw, defeated Ukraine's Hanna Okhota in the semi-finals to be assured of at least a silver.
Leaders have appealed to the participants to maintain peace and not to raise any kind of slogans.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah's daughter Dina Wadia filed a petition in the Bombay High Court, in August this year, for acquiring possession of Jinnah House, the late leader's residence in plush Malbar Hill locality of South Mumbai.
Sukanya Verma tells us just what makes Mirch Masala a must watch.
According to Wadia, the (then) State of Bombay took over the property, because Jinnah's sister Fatima was the trustee of Jinnah's will, and had been declared an evacuee (those who migrated to Pakistan post-partition) in 1949.
Dina Asher-Smith seized her golden opportunity to win the World Championship 200 metres on Wednesday and become the first British woman to claim a global sprint title.
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Microsoft Corporation on Tuesday announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately.
People living near the police station in Dina Nagar largely remained indoors.
Lindsay, 29, said the Hunger Games actress should 'learn to support others' while her younger sister, Aliana, said the 25-year-old beauty had 'lost a fan'.
Quite a few Hindi movies have explored different shades of the landlord-tenant relationship in passing or purposefully.
Short walk in parks may help mothers, daughters bond says study.
'Parsis are brought up with a great sense of the importance of truth and speaking your mind.'
According to sources, the NIA is trying to collect more information like Jaish-e-Mohammad as a terrorist organisation and its role in the attack.
16 years after The Warrior, Asif Kapadia and Irrfan Khan will team up once again for the cinematic adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
The three heavily-armed terrorists killed by the Border Security Force in Samba district had infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir to carry out a chain of terror attacks by blowing up running trains and tracks with chained IEDs and hard to detect liquid explosives, a top force official said on Wednesday.
'Anti-incumbency against sitting MPs and the government is a big issue here. We will win all seats in Mumbai'
Sounding an alert in the state, Parkash Singh Badal said it was time that the Centre dealt with terrorism with an iron hand.
A tough road awaits veteran L Sarita Devi and rookie Manisha Moun as they open India's campaign at the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, in New Delhi, on Friday.
The meeting between the two leaders lasted about 20 minutes.
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said that she is taking a break after more than a decade in public life.
Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce powered her way to 100 metres gold on Sunday to become the first person to win four gold medals over the distance at the athletics world championships.
American Noah Lyles shot to 200 meters world championships gold on Tuesday, providing a bright finish to a day darkened by yet another doping scandal.
Allyson Felix became the first woman to collect five athletics gold medals.
Union Minister Praful Patel and Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who is the Nationalist Congress Party's OBC face, are among 18 candidates announced by the party on Thursday for the Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra.
Wreaths were laid on the body of SP (Detective) Baljit Singh by politicians, top police officers, besides family and common people.
Modi told the delegation that urgent action was needed against those supporting and sponsoring terrorism.
Amid ongoing row over replacing German with Sanskrit as third language in Kendriya Vidyalayas, German Ambassador Michael Steiner on Wednesday reached out to Sanskrit teachers, including Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue Dina Nath Batra and decided to resolve the issue through more cultural exchanges.
Last year, Trump broke with decades of precedent by not hosting the annual Iftar dinne.
Somaiya, an old BJP hand and one of its leading speakers on economic issues in Parliament, had been a trenchant critic of the Sena.
It's never too late to start your career in Bollywood.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa is fit and healthy and has not shown any signs of 'a broken woman', a top jail official said.
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
Games Sukanya Verma learned at the movies.
Senior Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh, who is being questioned by NIA in connection with Pathankot terror attack probe, will undergo a lie detector test next week after he gave consent for it.
